Someday EA May Ask Me To Perform A Service
I’ve enjoyed the time I’ve spent with my rental of The Godfather: The Don’s Edition, even if I wasn’t able to take my saved game to a friend’s place to show him where I’d gotten to. Even so, it is important that I pay my respects.
The first thing The Godfather does when you start new game or load a saved game is connect to EA’s servers, and it shows a cancel button in the corner of the screen. It tells me it needs to do this to enable leaderboards, and I never gave it any identifying information about me to identify an EA online account. Plus, every time I go to save my game it gives me three options:
No (don’t save).
Yes, save.
Yes, save and upload statistics.
It just feels like EA is talking to me like Don Corleone does in the unskippable introduction to the game: “Someday, and this day may never come, I will come to you and ask you to perform a service for me. Until that day, accept this as a gift.” It makes me feel like I’m getting permission from EA to play the game. EA, what do I owe you in return for this game after I have it in my hands? Will this debt ever be repaid?
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